I've never used the 3 round burst except when we were burning off ammo that needed to be fired before departing the range.. I've never seen it legitimately used in training. I have heard that it was intended for use when firing from a moving platform and I can see that being true but I have nothing ...
In my case violence is sort of accurate; mother Army is sending me off to Afghanistan for a while. Not exactly tons of money but it's about a 18k$/year effective pay raise while I'm there. Coupled with reduced expenses on the whole it will certainly help a good bit. First car ride (home) on Tuesday ...
Turns out it doesn't take a degree in rocket science to figure it out - who knew? Fortunately the wife and kid will be headed to VA in a few weeks to spend the better part of a year. He can absorb some of the wisdom that the commonwealth has to offer.
I've been living in TX for about the last 18 months. It is nice not having state income tax but they get you back in other ways. Sales tax is a bit higher and property taxes are fairly substantial. I haven't looked into the tax code at all but I'm guessing that it's all cause-effect based as a resul...
I guess I am referring to the countries that I am familiar with - Ireland/Germany/France. Should have been more specific. Just seems like the working (professionals included) young people there have a much lower standard of living in many ways. An example being when I was in Germany for work over th...
Not to derail things too much - the euro zone is very interesting. Salaries are not that much higher on average than the US while cost of living is astronomical. Gas, taxes, rent, food.. the culture is very different. Young people have different priorities and give up some luxuries that we (American...
Don't usually have that kind of cash lying around, just sold a car to an old guy who paid in hundreds.
Good little pistol, I need to buy a holster for it. It would make a much nicer carry pistol compared to my subcompact glock. That thing is too fat. Doesn't like hollow points though.
Here's my Walther PPKS made some time in the 1980s. It's pretty much brand new, to my knowledge its only had a few rounds fired through it. Nice little pistol though.
Seemed like a fitting background given that it's the James Bond gun.
On the note of weighing ammo, and I'm sure Vrock knows plenty about this, we use this to our advantage in the military. Oftentimes there are unrealistic percentages(based on the type of training) required back in expended brass by the Ammo Supply Point; they weigh the brass to determine how much is ...
Deschutes Black Butte Porter Reserve XXIV Ordered a 1/3 keg(1/6 barrel) of their normal Black Butte Porter for $62 - when at the store to pick it up they had accidentally ordered a 1/2 keg of the yearly reserve edition(11% abv) so that's what I got instead. $270 half keg for about $60.. I think the ...
Don't have time to read the full thread so this may have already been suggested: Consider buying a single high end GPU now that will support all four monitors and run current games well. In a couple of years upgrade the GPU while leaving the rest of the system untouched. This should allow you to get...
http://i39.tinypic.com/24ctd8o.jpg Apologize for the bad photo - that's my all original 1911 that was originally purchased by the Army in early 1918. With it in the display case is my great grandfather's WWI era (early 1918) dog tag from the first run of dog tags that the Army made. The firearms an...
A bit late to this thread, this is in reply to the OP: I'm sure you already checked walmart but they really are the best place to go for ammo(unless you're picky). Their per round prices usually come near to or beat bulk online purchases. The caveat is that they've only got common calibers and no mi...
Finishing off a keg of Sam Adam's Boston Lager. Drank most of it Friday night with my co-workers, a good amount last night trying to finish it off, now I'm working on the last bits tonight(Sunday night). Good thing I've got a three day weekend with tomorrow off!
I've played and enjoyed both. My recommendation is fallout 3 but this is obviously subjective. Either way you can't go wrong, though I got many more hours of enjoyment out of fallout.
The previous replies look to be on point. If I were in your shoes I'd eat a second 'lunch' between midday and working out, something with complex carbohydrates within a couple of hours of your workout. If you're able to work out cardio on a less than empty stomach without getting queasy, you may wan...
For items related to firearms/hunting and military surplus there is gunbroker. There are a lot of military history items being on there sold as well. The fees are reasonable and sellers don't usually absorb the costs associated with money transfer.
We had plenty of break ins when I was living in the city over the past couple of years. The roommates didn't buy renter's insurance so of course they were the ones to lose stuff. Last year we had a few laptops stolen from the first floor of the home and a pistol stolen on another occasion. The back ...
Intel processors of the C2D vintage have enjoyed a lot of undervolting 'headroom'. I wouldn't be surprised if the newer ones are similar. If in your drive to keep the fan speeds down you think the processor is pumping out too much heat consider tweaking the voltage a bit.
Don't Surefires just use CR123As? Yeah, but they'll burn through them pretty quickly. I think my basic surefire incandescent goes through 2 per hour of constant use. Seeing as it's a weapon light with a touch strip that's not a big deal but I'd imagine one used as a normal flashlight would get expe...
Surefire flashlights really are great. They're what the military uses. Their higher output compact flashlights will temporary blind someone on the other end whose eyes were used to the dark. Additionally they're very reliable and durable. The LED surefires allow for much greater battery life based o...
I'm a lefty with an iphone 4. While I can see a signal strength drop if I intentionally hold a finger over the gap on the left side, I never cover that when actually using the phone. Perhaps I'm weird but I hold the phone in my left hand with my thumb on the middle left side and index/middle/ring fi...
I'm listening to pandora on my iphone 4 right now. Unfortunately I have to wait until July 19th to activate it as my old carrier doesn't pro rate the last month(past the contract requirement) when you switch services. It's too bad that it won't let me put music on it until I activate the AT&T se...
1.5 years ago when I got my used car inspected by a dealership prior to purchase they said that the rotors needed machined because of vibration felt in the pedal. They wanted $1200 to do this. The brakes still worked fine until recently when they've been making a squealing noise which got annoying. ...
I'm no raid guru but I think that a raid 1 setup would be better for you than manually copying the data from disk to disk if they're going to be hooked up 24/7 anyways. There's something to be said for having an off site backup instead of/in addition to only a raid 'backup' but it all depends on how...
Forgive me for not looking up the components of your build and their respective TDPs but I'm going to assume that they fall in line roughly with the TR test system. In the TR review the 5770 system drew 221 watts from the wall under their load tests. You could probably stress the system more than th...
It depends on the firearm, when I clean my Glock I don't take it apart. When I clean my AR-15 I take bolt carrier apart etc. which could be considered a 'detail strip'. I suppose you could get even more in depth so it would depend on your definition of the term. You could go on to take off the hand ...
This card is "NVIDIA's 5830" - it's their 3rd fastest GPU, priced higher than the 5830 because it does more. Seems reasonable to me. While this is a true statement, it does not discount what you and I know krogoth was actually saying. Even from a biased perspective it should be clear that...
So I'm getting the itch to shift gears on my 1911 purchase and pick up an old government or civilian model. Any thoughts? I might throw a bit of my own money into the mix in addition to the original quote I gave to my father on what this gift would cost. There are a couple of pretty nice looking his...
